She was sent to destroy him. Zara Quinn doesn’t make mistakes anymore, not after the last mission, when getting too close cost her everything. This time, she’s in control. Under the alias Lucia Hart, her job is simple, get close to Gabriel Romano, the untouchable head of a powerful crime family and bring him down. But Gabriel Romano isn’t a man who slips. He’s controlled. Dangerous. Always watching. And from the moment their paths cross, his attention lingers in a way she didn’t expect. What begins as a calculated game of proximity quickly turns into something far more volatile. Every look lasts too long. Every touch burns deeper than it should. He pulls her close, then pushes her away, keeping her just out of reach. Zara tells herself it’s working. But this doesn’t feel like control. When she pushes too far, Gabriel does something she never expected, he takes her into his world. Blackwood. A place where nothing goes unseen, and one wrong move could expose everything. Now Zara is caught between the mission she refuses to fail… and the man she was never supposed to want. Because bringing him down means betraying him. And betraying him might destroy them both.